{"id":507564,"date":"2026-06-19T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507564\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:44:10","slug":"world-cup-mexico-progress-and-canada-win-after-kone-leg-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507564\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup: Mexico progress and Canada win after Kone leg-break"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Kone a big part of the heart of Canada’published at 07:51 BST<\/p>\n

07:51 BST<\/p>\n

Canada 6-0 Qatar<\/p>\n

\"8:Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Canada head coach Jesse Marsch said Ismael Kone was “a big part of the heart of our team” after the midfielder suffered a broken leg in their 6-0 win against Qatar. <\/p>\n

“It was right in front of us, and everyone could hear the bone snap,” said Canada boss Jesse Marsch.<\/p>\n

“Everybody’s a little shaken by the whole experience because of the nature of the injury, and also because Ismael is a big part of the heart of our team. It will be a big loss for us.”<\/p>\n

Despite the nature of the injury, Kone was waving to supporters as he was stretchered off the field of play.<\/p>\n

“It is a statement about Ismael, but also this is an incredible team. I have been telling people for years about the character of this group,” said Marsch.<\/p>\n

“You got to see how everyone was crushed but we had to find a way to stay focused.”<\/p>\n

During the second-half hydration break, Marsch was in tears. Nathan Saliba – who had replaced Kone – held up his team-mate\u2019s shirt after he scored his side’s fourth.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will be back stronger than ever and he will continue to have a great career,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said at the water break that he would want us to finish this game – and that is what the guys did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Kone a big part of the heart of Canada’published at 07:51 BST 07:51 BST Canada 6-0 Qatar Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-507564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}